Showing posts with label James Madison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Madison. Show all posts
Saturday, February 22, 2025

A purported descendant of Patrick Henry and James Madison blasted The Tyrant Trump in GA-7 townhall represented by Rich McCormick

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  Town Hall Erupts At Blistering Anti-Trump Rant Torching ‘Tyranny’ — Gets Standing Ovation In Trump District : ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Betsy's right: High crimes and misdemeanors means offenses committed while in high office

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It's not the severity of the crime which makes it high, but it damn well better be a crime. Democrats haven't been able to come up ...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Then most Federalist Society folks are kooky: Senators and Representatives and Judges keep chairs warm for decades while POTUS becomes a lame duck immediately upon re-election

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We live under the spendthrift tyranny of the legislative feared by Madison, with its access to the pockets of the people, augmented by a ...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Asinine is right: Marketwatch story blames James Madison for bloated tax code

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There wasn't an income tax until 1913, for crying out loud, and never was intended to be. James Madison, of all people, believed i...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

James Madison had little faith in a bill of rights, repeatedly violated in "every state" in his own time by the tyranny of the majority

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From a letter to Jefferson in 1788: [E]xperience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights on those occasions when its controul is mo...

James Madison on parchment's powerlessness to stop the legislative's theft of our money

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From Publius, Federalist 48: Will it be sufficient to mark, with precision, the boundaries of these departments, in the constituti...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Congress corrected itself in 1795 dropping "natural born citizens" of children born abroad to citizens

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"And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond Sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be c...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

WaPo claims to be scared Congress has more Tea Party radicals now, but P.J. O'Rourke knows better

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And who better to really know than a fellow-traveling Tea Party libertarian? Here : [Scott] Brown lost the Senate race to Democr...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Republicans stopped growth of representation in the 1920s: Why isn't fixing that the Tea Party's job one?

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From the Wikipedia article, here : In 1921, Congress failed to reapportion the House membership as required by the United States Constitutio...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Constitutional parchment was no "practical security" against the US Senate's ObamaCare, was it?

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After discriminating, therefore, in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciar...
Monday, January 14, 2013

What The Country Needs Most Right Now Is . . .

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. . . a new federal holiday! Your proposals should include someone born in March, April, June or August, to fill in the months missing a fed...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Evidently Obama Learned Hostility Toward Marbury v. Madison (1803) at Harvard Law

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From an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, pointing out there would be nothing unprecedented in the Supreme Court overturning ObamaCare: ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

How About 10,000 US Representatives Instead of 435?

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Many people, rightly in my opinion, point to the decline of religious faith, traditional morality and constitutional respect for both as a l...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

By 1875 One Third of Federal Revenues Came From Taxes on Alcohol

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According to Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition : After lapsing in 1802, the alcohol excise was reimposed unde...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Libertarians Are Nuts: Transparent, Principled Representation Is Easily Stopped

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Usually by a pair of tits or testicles, or ambition, greed or personal animus. "Transparent, principled representation—supported by gra...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Walter Williams Skewers Democracy, and Time Magazine's Richard Stengel

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Just one of the bons mots: Stengel says, "If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn't say so....
Monday, December 13, 2010

America is Not Either Or, It's Both And

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Bill Clinton once shot back at black incitement to violence against whites, and wore it as a badge of a non-extreme third way ever thereafte...
Monday, July 26, 2010

George Will, National Treasure, Font of American Wisdom

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Some excerpts from his address to The CATO Institute in May: We are not Europeans. We are not, in Orwell's phrase, a "state-broken...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Present Day Tea Party's Connection to the Past

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The author inhabits the world the Tea Party opposes, but provides a sympathetic accounting nonetheless, which originally appeared here . It ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Our Rights are Presumed, not Granted

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If they are the sort of things which can be granted, permitted, dispensed, or won, then they can also be rescinded, forbidden, withheld and ...